As Ian Sees It

I left room for a picture up there.     And it worked on my iPad. Is it just me, or are we being manipulated constantly by the IT industry?  Hopefully I will be able to figure out what I have to do that doesn't involve updating my system .....AGAIN!  We now go through more computers than we do television sets in our house.  We used to laugh that our systems were obsolete before they were taken out of the box.  While this has never been more true, we aren't laughing anymore.  We have been made reliant on a system that changes constantly.  And it would be more manageable if the language that accompanies the changes did not change  as well.   Now I am not an idiot.  I see what is going on out there.  Facebook which has been all but completely abandoned by all but us boomers spends a great deal of cyber space sharing insults hurled towards young people.  They are all lazy.  They don't know how to communicate, or read a bo...

 If there is such a thing as the twelve days of Christmas, would they start now?  Twelve days from Christmas?  Or do they start at Christmas and run through to the Epiphany?  Perhaps Bob and Doug MacKenzie counted up the twelve days of Christmas best.  Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Years Eve, New Years Day,   The two weekends before and between,  and the three mystery days of Christmas.  (Add em up,  these guys were more than just another pretty face with a toque on top.)   Now I am not just another pretty face either.  In fact, I am not a pretty face at all.   But I do know a little bit about the Epiphany and I am going to freelance the definition without looking it up.  In Layman's terms (which means in words I can spell) the Epiphany was when the wisemen actually found Jesus.   When they determined that Jesus was actually the Messiah.   Then again,  I sat through a few years of midnight ma...